Partied Out!

Good to be home. A weekend in the city validates our decision to move to Durango! This Garcia family is partied out. Recap of our whirl-wind Birthday/Thanksgiving celebration weekend:

Wednesday:
Loaded up the whole "fam damily" for a quick trip over the mountains to Denver (this drive never goes quite as planned with 2 young children...). Our best friends and the girls Godparents, the Block's, kicked off the weekend with a pizza and cupcakes birthday party. Maia and Eva were extremely excited to have a sleep over with their best friends Caroline, Sophia and Cooper. Happy Birthday to Brie who also celebrated with us!



Thursday:
Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Birthday Eva! Spent the day with my whole family. It was good to have us all together!

Friday:
We did a little Black Friday shopping. It was actually not bad at all (but we did avoid all Walmarts and electronic sales!). Just the usual...new tires for the Jeep. This was the first time in over 10 years that I have actually had to buy tires as a customer. Yikes, that hurt a little! Good thing I still know a lot of people in the biz!

We met up with Magan's sisters and nephew, Stacy, Stephanie and Tony, for more birthday celebrations that evening (Stacy's birthday was on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving). Eva and Stacy chose Mexican food for dinner. Happy Birthday Stacy!





(On a quick side note... Stacy and Stephanie have had a rough year. We are happy you are both well! We may be in Durango but we are always here for you both...for whatever!).

Saturday:
Frozen!!! This was the highlight of our vacation as far as the girls were concerned. They have been very eagerly awaiting the new Disney movie! And who doesn't love an afternoon spent at the movies with candy and popcorn and blue slushy's?!?! The movie was awesome! Coming from a Daddy who has now watched every Disney princess movie ONE THOUSAND times and plays princesses EVERY DAY and reads princess books and is required to be the "prince" to all their imaginary games... Bravo Disney! This one is my new favorite!





Saturday night continued with birthday celebrations. The "official" Garcia party for Eva and YaYa (aka Christa, my sister, the girls Aunt, and their former nanny who they miss VERY, VERY much. Christa's birthday was the Tuesday before Thanksgiving). Happy Birthday Christa! Eva got spoiled with presents, which she loved and was overly animated about! Way to make every gift-giver feel like they picked the perfect gift Eva!



We allowed the girls to stay up playing with their cousins until midnight. Which turned out to be a bad parenting choice when you have a 6 hour drive home. We thought they would be so exhausted they would sleep the whole way. Bad idea. Overwhelmed, over sugered, exhausted, emotional children are not ideal travel partners...

A great Birthday/Thanksgiving get-away! We caught up with a good amount of family and friends. Celebrated too much. We are a blessed family with so much to be thankful for!



We will be staying in Durango for Christmas - just the 4 of us. I feel like I can officially settle in and begin the holidays!

Hasta...